Denise Baer is a native of the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from DePaul University. She is the author of a women’s fiction novel, Fogged Up Fairy Tale, a dark, psychological suspense novel, Net Switch, and a collection of poetry, Sipping a Mix of Verse comprised of traditional form and free verse. Her poems have appeared in Danse Macabre, and she ranked in the top 1/6 of the Summer Literary Seminar (SLS) with an offer to study writing and other cultures in Europe. Denise currently resides in Germany with her husband and four-legged baby, Shakespeare, learning German and working on her next adventure.